Getting the paths of Finder selection items efficiently

A common task is to get the paths to items currently selected in the Finder. The simplest approach, which converts each Finder reference to text in a repeat loop, can be noticeably slow for a large number of selected items:

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A third approach entails bulk conversion of the selection to text and extraction of the paths using text item delimiters. On my machine, Method #3 runs about 10 times faster than Method #1 and about 2.5 times faster than Method #2 and thus may be the preferred approach when processing a large number of items:

The text item delimiter approach has been described by ccstone before (http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=164036), but I thought it would be worthwhile pointing it out in a more widely viewed forum because of the frequency with which this task is performed.